He was gregarious. He was preppy, often dressed in a favorite yellow sweater. As one classmate put it, “He didn’t strike me as out of the mainstream.” Minorities in the class said he didn’t make them feel uncomfortable. A Jewish classmate said he never heard him say anything anti-Semitic.

“I don’t think there’s a racist bone in his body,” said Thomas Meredith, who sat with Bannon in the skydeck.

The alt-right is small. It may remain so. And yet, while small, it is part of something this election showed to be much bigger: the emergence of white people, who evidently feel their identity is under attack, as a “minority”-style political bloc.

then again, NYT reassured us before

Evolving on the horrible scale

Is that what happened? Or did you frame a debate in such a way that he was eager to participate in it? https://t.co/sOQ5gvpiJq

hen, let me add, why are we having this discussion to begin with? Why is this a “thing?” Is the insinuation that people with white skin are somehow better, or supreme to borrow a word? And so not being white is lesser than? – that was my first reaction! And how are we going from “Are Jews People” to “Are Jews White” on, perhaps what were formerly, reputable news sources!?!
When The Atlantic engenders a discussion where David Duke feels he needs to weigh in, I can only say, shame on you Atlantic.